The presence of others who see what we see and hear what we hear assures us of the reality of the world and ourselves.

They must remember that they are constantly on the run, and that the world's reality is actually expressed by their escape.

... the will always wills to do something and thus implicitly holds in contempt sheer thinking, whose whole activity depends on "doing nothing.

Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.

The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility - of being unable to undo what one has done - is the faculty of forgiving.

To speak of the impotence of power is no longer a witty paradox.

Goodness that comes out of hiding and assumes a public role is no longer good, but corrupt in its own terms and will carry its own corruption wherever it goes.